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Police Clarifies Protest By Mopol Officers In Maiduguri

The Nigeria
Police Force has clarified that its personnel seen blocking its Borno
headquarters earlier today in Maiduguri, were not staging a protest, but were
merely complaining over the delay in paying their special duty allowances.

The
Force spokesman, Acting DCP, Jimoh Moshood, in a statement in Abuja on Monday,
said some of the Police Mobile Force personnel on Special duty only went to the
command to enquire about the delay in the payment and not to protest. Moshood
said that the PMF personnel who went on enquiry were not those attached to
Operation Lafiya Dole in the fight against insurgency in the North East. He
explained that they were those on the category of visiting PMF units deployed
in Maiduguri on Crime Prevention and other Police duties in the State.

“The force wish to categorically state that it
is not correct that police personnel protested in Maiduguri today July 2,“he
said.

Moshood
said that the Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris, had directed
the Commissioner of Police in Borno to address them why the delay in the
payment of their special duty allowances.

He also
assured them that with the approval of the budget, the allowances would be
expeditiously processed and paid without any further delay. The spokesman said
that the IGP also ordered the Commissioner of PMF to proceed to Borno and other
States in the North East where personnel are deployed on special duty. He said
that the commissioner should also inform them on efforts being made by the
force to ensure timely payment of their allowances.

“Members of the Public in Maiduguri, Borno are
hereby enjoined not to panic but to go about their lawful duties and other
responsibilities without fear or apprehension. “The Nigeria Police Force is a
disciplined organisation and will not allow any situation to degenerate into
disturbance of Public Peace anywhere in the Country,“he said. NAN had reported
earlier that Mobile policemen in the Borno capital of Maiduguri staged a protest
over non-payment of their allowances. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that the protesting policemen barricaded the command headquarters located on
Maiduguri-Kano expressway. The protest disrupted traffic on the road. One of
protesting policemen who pleaded anonymity, said they were angry over
non-payment of their allowances in the last six months.

“About 10, 000 mobile policemen were deployed
to the state from different commands but we have not received our allowances in
the past six months. “We have been serving at the command headquarters since
our deployment; but some of us deployed to other locations outside the
headquarters were being paid their allowances as and when due. “We have been
facing hardships as a result of the non-payment of the allowances. We have made
several complaints but nobody listened to us,” the aggrieved policeman said.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr
Damian Chukwu, blamed the non payment on the delay in the passage of the 2018
budget. He called on the protesting policemen to calm down and assured them
that their allowances would be paid.

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